Tuesday, April 15, 2014

TV shortens sleep time of children - NU.nl


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When children sleep in a room where a TV is present, take their sleep on average thirty minutes shorter than when their bed is not near TV stands.

Every hour that kids active during the day looking at the screen, leading to seven minutes less sleep per night. that reports the Harvard University .

The American scientists arrived at their findings by following their more than 1,800 children first in their eighth year of life. The parents were interviewed every year.

They had to tell you how much time their children spent in front of the television and whether there was a television near the kiddies.

Off The research shows that boys are generally a little more sleep than see girls by the presence of a TV.

in children from families who belong to an ethnic minority appears relatively frequently a television in the room where they sleep.

The full results of the study will be published next month in the scientific journal Pediatrics .

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